Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1910 — RECIPES FOR CAKE [ARTICLE]

RECIPES FOR CAKE

OATMEAL COOKIES MADE TENDER BY USE OF KNIFE. Ingredients Used in Making ThreeLayer Hot-Water Cake, Orange Preparations—Also Good Directions for Kisses. Oatmeal Cookies Help.—Almost every one is fond of oatmeal cookies, but there Is one thing disliked by many, that Is the uncooked taste that the oatmeal has if not ground. I have learned by experience that by using the coarsest knife on your food chopper and grinding the oatmeal through it improves the cookies very much. This does not pulverize the oatmeal, but makes the grains finer and distributes the flavor more evenly, and they never have that uncooked taste. Below is my favorite recipe: One s cup shortening, half lard and half butter; one large cupful C sugar creamed with butter, two eggs well beaten, tablespoonfuls sour milk, one scant teaspoonful soda dissolved in milk, one teaspoonful cinnamon, half teaspoonful nutmeg, pinch of salt; onehalf cupful chopped nut meats; one cupful chopped raisins, one small teaspoonful baking powder sifted with two cups flour. Add one cup ground oatmeal last. I bake these In muffin tins, but can be baked as drop cookies if preferred.

Hot Water Cake. —Four eggs, separate them, beat yolks light, gradually stirring in two cupfuls of granulated sugar. Beat well together, add one cupful of boiling water, two cupfuls of flour; one teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat whites to a froth and flavor. This makes a good, large, three-layer cake. Bake slowly. Orange Cake. —One cup sugar, three tablespoonfuls butter, two eggs, half cup orange grated rind of one orange, one and one-half cups flour, one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream butter, add sugar, beat; add eggs unbeatetn; beat thoroughly; add orange juice, then the flour sifted with the baking powder. Bake in gem pans and roll in powdered sugar while warm. Kisses.—The secret of good kisses lies in the beating. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, then add two cupfuls of granulated sugar and one teaspoonful of vinegar. Beat well for twenty minutes. Turn your baking pan upside down and cover with oiled paper. Drop the mixture In teaspoonfuls on the pan. In baking they swell quite a bit. Do not turn the light on the oven until they are in. Then bake slowly 25 minutes. This quantity makes two dozen.